India, Feb. 25 -- Sanya Malhotra-starrer Mrs has been garnering rave reviews from audiences and critics ever since it released on ZEE5 on February 7. The film was directed by Arati Kadav and is the Hindi remake of the Malayalam film The Great Indian Kitchen. In it, Sanya stars as an aspiring dancer named Richa, who is married off in a patriarchal family where she is reduced to doing household chores. However, she ultimately resists her oppression. (Also read: Sanya Malhotra's old films become most watched on Netflix after Mrs success; director says 'this is so rare')

In an interview with HT, actor Kanwaljit Singh- who plays Richa's patriarchal father-in-law, Ashwin Kumar, sat down with us to talk about the impact of the film, the reactio...